AI for Knowledge Work

The problem this course solves

You have a model open in a tab all day. It answers instantly. And you still spend Tuesday rewriting its output, checking numbers it invented, and re-reading a document you should have understood in ten minutes.

The gap is not the model. It is the loop around it: what you hand over, what you keep, how you check, and where the result has to land. This course fixes the loop.

Curriculum

Week 1 — The operator’s loop

• Where AI earns its keep, and the three tasks where it quietly costs you a day
• Briefing: context, constraints, examples, and the one sentence that changes the output
• Reading an answer: the three checks that catch a confident lie
• Practice: rebuild one real task from your own week

Week 2 — Research that survives a fact-check

• Turning a vague question into a research plan the model can actually execute
• Source discipline: what counts as evidence, and how to make it cite
• Long documents: summarising without losing the part that matters
• Contradictions: using a second model as an adversarial reader
• Practice: a one-page briefing with five defensible sources

Week 3 — Documents, decks and meetings

• From notes to a structure: outlines that do not read like a model wrote them
• Your voice: a short style card that keeps drafts in your register
• Decks and one-pagers: what to let the model draft and what to lay out yourself
• Meetings: transcript to decisions to follow-ups, in fifteen minutes
• Practice: the full pipeline on a real deliverable

What you build

Every week ends with a deliverable from your own job, not a fictional exercise. By the end you have:

1. A brief template you reuse for every task.
2. A research checklist with the verification steps baked in.
3. A style card and a small prompt library for your role.
4. One finished document that went through the whole pipeline.

How the three weeks run

Self-paced, with a suggested rhythm of four to six hours a week. Lessons are short — ten to fifteen minutes of reading and one exercise each. Project feedback is included: you submit the week’s deliverable and get written notes within two working days.

There is no live schedule to miss. If a week goes sideways, you continue where you stopped.

What you need

A browser, a paid account on any major assistant, and one recurring task you would like to stop dreading. No code, no plugins, no setup beyond that.

Who it is not for

If you want a tour of fifty tools, this will feel slow. If you want someone to tell you AI will replace your judgement, this will feel rude. The course assumes you are the one who signs off on the work.